Report: Court Served as Obama’s Rubber Stamp on Electronic Surveillance

According to new analysis of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), not even a single one of the 9,400 Obama administration applications “to conduct electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes” was denied in the last six years.

The stunning approval rate hints that the FISC served as a complete rubber stamp for the previous administration during that time, and comes amid fury over allegations from President Trump that Obama had Trump Tower wiretapped before the 2016 election.

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Some of the wiretapping and surveillance activities conducted by Obama have been covered at The Political Insider, including high-ranking UN officials, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Nikolas Sarkozy, and Angela Merkel.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court did not deny a single application out of the 9,400 the government submitted over the last six years on record (2010-2015) seeking authority “to conduct electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes” under the terms of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, according to reports filed by the U.S. Justice Department.

The last time the court denied an electronic surveillance application under FISA was 2009. That year, the court denied one application outright and denied another in part.

While such an extreme approval rating becomes relevant due to our current political battle between presidents Trump and Obama, it should be noted that in 33 years, the FISC has approved over 99% of government applications.

That said, under President George W. Bush, the court denied four FISA applications in 2003, three in 2007, and another in 2008.

President Obama saw nowhere near that many denials.

Last week, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) told Congress that “more and more Americans are getting swept up in these (FISA) searches.”

Was President Trump, a candidate at the time, one of those Americans swept up? Time will tell.

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We can all see by the treatment of President Trump by the DOJ, FBI, CIA that they are their own government—they have their own laws—-they continue the same crooked ways as in the last administration. America beware—THE CROOKS ARE STILL IN CHARGE IN WASHINGTON.

The intelligence agencies (in cooperation with the telecommunication companies) are recording EVERY SINGLE PHONE CALL, EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE and every communication used by ALL devices in the U.S. All a person has to do is call up your phone number or email address to see every correspondence anyone has had in years. That is why obama had expanded the storage for all these records.